After Shakespeare

This anthology draws on the literature that shows the impact Shakespeare has had on our cultural life. Novelists, poets, and playwrights are all represented, as are philosophers, historians, composers, film-makers, and politicians.Shakespearean characters and motifs are shown to fuel the genius of Goethe and Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley and Emily Dickinson, John Updike and Duke Ellington, Nabokov and Proust. Shakespeare the man fires the imagination of Kipling and Joyce, Borges and Anthony Burgess. Herman Melville writes a poem about Falstaff, D. H. Lawrence anatomizes Hamlet, R.K. Narayan describes a Shakespeare lesson in an Indian classroom, and John Osborne adapts Coriolanus whilst Ionescu reworks Macbeth. Jean-Paul Sartre proves an unexpectedly expert commentator on King Lear.